Mr. Noel Waters:

We have figures here which demonstrate that once annualised hours were introduced, from the period from 2006 onwards, the actual cost of annualised hours varied from about €31 million up to €35 million. In the previous years when overtime was the system used in the prison system, the expenditure went from a high of €59 million down to around €46 million. There is a clear correlation between the €46 million to €59 million to an average of around €31 million or €32 million in the period after annualised hours were introduced. That was a clear saving directly related to annualised hours.